The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-12-21


board or else to the people. The Senat
amendment provides for the election O
the commission by the Legislature.
TIE AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION BILL
gave rise to spirited discussion. TIL
bill camo mp for its final reading, havin,
passed second reading by vote of 81
to y. Tho discussion was oponed b,
DIR. Pope, of Newberry,, who moved e
recommit the bill, that being the par
liamentary process of squelching bill
that has already been passed. DIR. Pop,
explained that he mado the motion be
cause the bill is unconstitutional, it be
ing In direct conflict with Section |
Article 8, of the Constitution. The bill
likes one time for the farmers product
to bo valued august 1st) preceding
January 1st of the return and leaves
other property to be valued as of Junua
ry LIST. The bill thon passed its thirt
reading, without division.
NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Joint resolution to call Consti
tutional Convention was fully discussed
In the House, but was killed by vote
OF 66 to IA. The matter may now be
considered settled for the present session
ELECTION PRECINCTS.
The House has passed the voting pre-
clnct bill to third reading. This is in
the nature of On amendment to the e!ec.
tlon laws and Is passed at almost every
session, the object being to change OF
add to the precincts. The counties
Affected by the present bill are Chester
tieid, kcrshaw, Lancaster, Lexington,
9partanbnrg, Chester, Horny, Beaufort,
LaIrens, Berkeley, Anderson, Oconee,
Pickens, York and Greenville.
NO NEW ArPoRTIoNMEyr.
The apportionment bill caused quito n
discussion in the Senate. The oppon-
ents chiefly took the ground that it was
unconstitutional. 1t was finally killed
by vote of 10 to Is.
THE COLUMBIA CANAL.
Tho Columbia Canal bill was ON the
Senate Calendar for second reading,
Senator Bemphill moved its indefinite
postponement. Tabled by vote 13
too.
Senator Ialbert moved to amend by
requiring the convicts to be clothed, fed
and guarded by the trustees of the Canal
and five dollars month be paid for
their hire.
Senator Murray moved to table the
motion. Carried-lS to 13. Senator
Ialbert offered another amendment. re-
qulring the Canal trustees to feed npd
clothe tho convicts. This was defeated
by vote of Is to il. On the passage
or the bill Senator Talbe,t demanded
the yeas aud nays, saying that he wished
hisVote recorded against this infamous
scheme. The bill passed by vote of
Is to H.
TIE STOCK LAW IN COLLEToN
The bill to exempt portions Of Cole
ton from the Genera! Stock Law passed
tho House after lengthy debate, par
ticipatcd in by Messrs. Dantzler. OF
Orangeburg; Padgett, Hill and VIM
berly, OF Coileton; Lescsno, of Charles
ton; Keitt, of Newberry; Tindall, of
Clarendon; Stanland, of Berkeley Ham
ilton, OF Chester, and some others.
THE PROPOSED COUNTY OF FLORENCE.
When the bill to create new county.
to be known as tho County of Florence,
was taken up in the Senate, Mr.. Moody,
OF Marion, moved to indefinitely post.
pone the unfavorable report of tho
Judiciary Committee. In support of
this motion Senator Moody delivered an
earnest speech, strongly setting forth the
needs of the people Of east Marion, and
appealing to the Senate to recognize
those needs by passing tho bill.
Senator Edwards. OF Darlington,
argued strongly against the bill on the
ground that it would take valuable tori
tory awav from both Darlington and
Williamsburg, against the will OF the
people Of those counties.
Senator Byrd, OF williamsburg, OBJ
jccted to tho bill, also on the ground
that it would take territory and popula-
tion from his county, against the will Of
the people.
After some further debate Senator
Edwards moved to table the motion of
Senator Moody to indefinitely postpone
the unfavorable report of the committee.
Upon the call of tho yeas and nays,
the vote was as follows
Yeas-Messrs. Bell, Bieman, Black.
Bnist, Byrd, Crews, Edwards, Howell,
Hemphill, lzlar, Kennedy, Murray,
Moore, Munro, Mccall, Noise, Rhame,
Sinkler, Talbcrt, Wofford, Williams,
Wingard, Woodward, Youmans-2l.
Nays--Messrs. Austin, Alexander,
Field, Moody, Patterson, Reynolds,
Smith.
Senator Edwards then moved to adopt
the un(ayorable report of the committee,
and reject the bill. This motion was
adopted without division, and the fate
of the bill was sealed.
ABOUT GRANTING BAIL.
The bill to regulate the granting of
bail after conviction caused some debate
in the Senate. 1t was finally passed in
the following shape:
THAT from and after the passage of
this Act it shall not be lawful for any
Justice or any Circuit Judge of the State,
pending an appeal to the Supreme Court,
to grant bail TO any person who shall
have been convicted of any offonse the
punishment whereof is death or imprison-
ment for life or imprisonment for ten
years."
THE PHOSPHATE BILL.
The House had lengthy debate on
the bill reported by the phosphate com
mission which has already been out
lined in this correspondence.
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